Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

265,813	242,899	1,566	43,022	15,039	683,170
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	357	128,649	122.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	318	167,164	159.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	85	21,247	20.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	77	32,548	31.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	60	10,024	9.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	55	10,573	10.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	39	17,227	16.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	39	4,513	4.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	4,555	4.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	36	30,245	28.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	36	11,545	11.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,638	5.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,990	5.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	25	1,087	1.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	9,990	9.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	22	752	0.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	6,292	6.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	20	22,796	21.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	5,255	5.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,841	1.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,348	1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	14	3,330	3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,941	3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,106	2.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,863	1.8
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	727	0.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	3,140	3.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,497	1.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	424	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	657	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	4,532	4.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	720	0.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	5,590	5.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	6	831	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	971	0.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,190	1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	972	0.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,700	2.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	474	0.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	417	0.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.1
Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	211	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	64,207	61.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,503	600,056

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,050,304. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (600,056) include 57.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.